Morewood,
I was HONORED to have actually talked twice for a few minutes to MAJ Murphy by phone when I was assigned to HQ, 3/144th in MAR 1971. = LTC Cobb told me to call him & see if there was any possibility that he could appear at the Greenville or Terrill armories for a ceremony in his honor.
Shortly thereafter he was killed in the plane crash.
ADDENDA: Speaking of his affection for our TXARNG unit, MAJ Murphy gave his personal Model of 1917 US Army Rifle (the so-called American Enfield rifle of WWI) to one of our company's EM in Summer 1970.
(I believe that the SM who received the rifle was some sort of relative, but I'm NOT sure of that.)
yours, tex
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